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Physics

Microscope becomes gauge to measure forces within crystals

Cornell Chronicle

All materials found in nature – even the most “perfect” diamond – contain defects, since the atoms inside them are never arranged in perfect order.Such structural disorder causes complex force distributions throughout the material. Measuring these forces is critical to understanding the material’s behavior, but these force measurements have been impossible to perform through conventional techniques, which only determine average responses to stress.

Anthropology

"For five millennia, politicians have proposed walls like Trump’s. They don’t work."

Arts & Sciences Communications

In an op-ed in The Washington Post, anthropologist Adam Smith offers lessons from history on Donald Trump's proposed wall as a solution to border problems.

Classics

Volume in honor of classics professor Fred Ahl released

Arts & Sciences Communications

“Wordplay and Powerplay in Latin Poetry,” a book in honor of Frederick Ahl edited by two of his former students, has just been released. The volume comes out of a conference titled “Speaking to Power in Latin and Greek Literature,” which was organized in honor of Ahl at Cornell University in September 2013.

History of Capitalism

Special issue of journal devoted to history of capitalism

Arts & Sciences Communications

“In the last decade, political economy has moved from the margins to the mainstream of the historical conversation in the United States,” writes history postdoc Noam Maggor in his introduction to the special History of Capitalism issue of the Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, which he edited.  “Galvanized under the banner of the ‘his

English & Sociology

Student explores how socioeconomic status affects choice of college major

A&S Communications

As Emma Korolik ’17 looked around at the other students taking her English classes, she wondered: do class backgrounds affect what major a student might choose in college? And if so, why? Korolik decided to focus her senior honors thesis on the questions.

Comparative Literature

Understanding freedom and law through psychoanalysis

Arts & Sciences Communications

When Tracy McNulty read “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden” at age ten, about a psychotic, the book had a profound impact: after college, McNulty went to France to study psychoanalysis and later trained with experts in psychosis treatment.  With academic degrees in French and comparative literature and training in clinical psychoanalysis, McNulty has become known for combining these interests in her scholarship.

Philosophy

Sympathy for the Rapist: What the Stanford Case Teaches

Arts & Sciences Communications

The Brock Turner rape case at Stanford triggered a firestorm of criticism; an op-ed by assistant professor of philosophy Kate Manne in the Huffington Post helps to explain why.The case, she wrote, “vividly illustrates…all of the ways we collectively ignore, deny, minimize, forgive, and forget the wrongdoing of men who conform to the norms of toxic masculinity, and behave in domineering ways towards their historical subordinates: women.”

Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Male frogs have sex on land to keep competitors away

Cornell Chronicle

When it comes to the birds and the bees, frogs are remarkably diverse: They do it in water, on land and on leaves.Researchers have assumed that natural selection drove frogs to take the evolutionary step to reproduce on land as a way for parents to avoid aquatic predators who feed on the eggs and tadpoles.

History

Mary Beth Norton to lead American Historical Association

A&S Communications

Mary Beth Norton, the Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History, has been elected president of the American Historical Association (AHA), the principal umbrella organization for the profession. Her one-year term as president will begin in January 2018.

Student Services

Peer advising program eases transition to college

A&S Communications

Upperclass students help first-year students navigate the social and extracurricular avenues of Cornell.

Evolutionary Biology

Kennedy endowment funds evolutionary biology lectures

A&S Communications

Kennedy taught popular courses about human biology, evolution and forensics.

Asian Studies

Students enjoy exclusive access to Japan's treasured monasteries

A&S Communications

Students experienced the art and tradition they had been learning about during the semester.

Humanities

Klarman time capsule sealed into place

A&S Communications

The Klarman Hall time capsule is now sealed and buried, awaiting its discovery by future Cornell students during Cornell’s bicentennial year in 2065.Sheldon Borden, left, and Ray Wilson, right, carpenters with Local 277, completed the project on July 19.

Award

Adam Levine wins two American Political Science Association awards

Arts & Sciences Communications

Adam Seth Levine, assistant professor of government, has won two awards from the American Political Science Association (APSA), the leading professional organization for the study of political science. The awards will be presented in Philadelphia at the beginning of September.

College Prep

Prefreshmen Summer Program gives students opportunity to build skills for college

A&S Communications

Most students head to college at the end of August, however students participating in the Prefreshmen Summer Program (PSP) at Cornell arrived June 21 and will spend seven weeks on campus.